George Carey (Lord Deputy)

He should not be confused with his near namesake and second cousin[3] Sir George Carew, later Earl of Totnes, who also held posts in Ireland at the same period.

[4] Thomas Cary's Easter Sepulchre type monument survives in St Saviour's Church, Tor Mohun.

[2] In 1601, Cary was responsible for the introduction of a newly debased Irish coinage and was accused in the Exchequer of Pleas of enriching himself in the process.

Although the case was prolonged for several years nothing was ultimately proven, which may explain the words free from all filthy fraud that are inscribed on Isaac Oliver's miniature portrait of him (illustrated above).

Cary was her second husband; she was previously the wife of John Bury (1540–1574) of Colleton in the parish of Chulmleigh, Devon, whom she had married when both parties were aged only 13, and contrary to ecclesiastical law.